Sarah Martin, the Prison Visitor, of Great Yarmouth: With Extracts from Her Writings & Prison JournalsReligious tract society, 1799 - 144 pages |
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... Bible , and a bitter prejudice against spiritual truth , and the gospel of Christ , in every form that met me . At this period , I learned from a school - girl the way of obtaining novels and romances at a cheap rate , from an old ...
... Bible , and a bitter prejudice against spiritual truth , and the gospel of Christ , in every form that met me . At this period , I learned from a school - girl the way of obtaining novels and romances at a cheap rate , from an old ...
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... Bibles , which had been my dear mother's , I removed from their place and hid , that they might not even meet my view ; studiously avoiding whatever might bring God to my thoughts , in the idea , that should the Bible , after all ...
... Bibles , which had been my dear mother's , I removed from their place and hid , that they might not even meet my view ; studiously avoiding whatever might bring God to my thoughts , in the idea , that should the Bible , after all ...
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... Bible , for the purpose of discovering what he called " contradictions , " and whilst scorning the Bible , would adopt an opinion of Voltaire , Shaftesbury , or Bolingbroke , as a standard of decision on truth or error . In my ...
... Bible , for the purpose of discovering what he called " contradictions , " and whilst scorning the Bible , would adopt an opinion of Voltaire , Shaftesbury , or Bolingbroke , as a standard of decision on truth or error . In my ...
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... Bible was indeed read formally , a few chap- ters daily , but not honoured as the supreme source of Divine knowledge ; whilst my first ex- pectation of advance was from religious books , to the reading of which late and early hours were ...
... Bible was indeed read formally , a few chap- ters daily , but not honoured as the supreme source of Divine knowledge ; whilst my first ex- pectation of advance was from religious books , to the reading of which late and early hours were ...
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... Bible with different views and different effects ; for the attainment of that peace , which I sought in vain by my own power . I found to be the gift of God . I began by committing much to memory from the Scriptures 10 LIFE OF SARAH MARTIN.
... Bible with different views and different effects ; for the attainment of that peace , which I sought in vain by my own power . I found to be the gift of God . I began by committing much to memory from the Scriptures 10 LIFE OF SARAH MARTIN.
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Popular passages
Page 106 - Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine ; continue in them : for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
Page 96 - ... .Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, Son of man, and say to the wind, thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
Page 98 - And inasmuch as ye have done it to one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me...
Page 78 - For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
Page 43 - God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but have life everlasting.
Page 86 - And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Page 79 - As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women.
Page 96 - His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
Page 77 - ... if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon-day : and the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones : and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Page 78 - Thou shalt also decree a thing, And it shall be established unto thee : And the light shall shine upon thy ways.